Posted on: November 11, 2023

deadoceans

Spiele: 257 Rezensionen: 5

Thematic Consistency and Intensity

I remember playing the first game many years ago now. Although I've changed immeasurably these past years, I'm glad to see A Plague Tale has not. Here still stands a testament to burning, righteous anger and unflinching desire carried on by the will to see the one you love protected regardless of the lives it may cost. This game is absolutely beautiful, with a stunning, gripping selection of characters and accompanying voice actors to bring them to life. The cut scenes are highly immersive; you may be jarred back into action when the cut scene suddenly changes to gameplay once more as if you were watching a movie that suddenly transformed into a video game. The haunting, intense soundtrack permeates the outskirts of the story unfolding before you: a highly dramatic, continuously depressing and stressful narrative. There is no peace. There is only the hope of peace, and that hope is crushed over and over again until it's nearly impossible to conjure how anyone in the world could still harbor it. Yes, A Plague Tale is not open world like every other game of this generation is attempting to do. Here you will find linearity and a story-driven medium that sticks to its own formula. The gameplay can sometimes become repetitive, the puzzles are not incredibly fun, and the rats pissed me off more than once. But still, I played on to beat the game. And these days, I rarely finish them. Because what kept me coming back was wanting to see how this story of Hugo and Amicia unfolded. What kept me coming back was the intensity: seeing a human go to the extremes of vindinctive violence and even sadism when pushed too far for too long. In the heat of this chaos, there is no time to take a universal perspective; there is only you and the people you care about and the people who are trying to destroy you. Sacrifices are made and irreversible scars were obtained, but A Plague Tale had its characters hold their ground to the bitter end regardless of the cost. 5/5.

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Posted on: April 7, 2024

scorchoculus

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Spiele: 73 Rezensionen: 1

Fantastic

If you enjoy story driven single player games, this is definitely one to pick up. Great story, atmosphere, and a beautiful soundtrack.

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Posted on: October 26, 2022

narcissus79

Spiele: 189 Rezensionen: 15

Had potential that wasn't fulfilled

Got this game on Gamepass. A stealth game with a little combat and a LOT of storyline. The story itself was fine, but the dialogue is a little lame at times, and the way Amicia talks to herself is often hilariously bad. Frustratingly, the game narrows down the corridoors of travel so it basically becomes "pick scrub 'A' or wall 'B' to hide behind and continue moving on, choosing to either kill or sneak past guards". There are LOTS of chapters where the majority of it is justing running, or worse, walking while there is exposition. If they got rid of these sections the gameplay would probably be cut short to 8 hours, so this was obviously a ploy to lengthen gameplay time. The graphics were decent, and only a few glitches of NPC's getting stuck or killing themselves. The music score is decent. I feel like if they had worked it towards being a little more like Shadows of War/ Shadow of Mordor in gamestyle (obviously with less combat options) would have worked better. All in all, this game left me frustrated, and yet the storytelling deserved better.

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Posted on: May 1, 2023

McMaxFreak

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Spiele: 89 Rezensionen: 1

Sehr schöne Story

Das Spiel hat mich zu tiefst berührt, auch obwohl ich den ersten Teil nicht mal gespielt habe. Zuerst das Negative, damit man mit dem Gutem endet. Die Spielemechanik selbst war leider nicht wirklich etwas für mich. Über kleinere Steine kann nicht darübergelaufen werden, man muss drum herum gehen. Noch dazu war ich immer mal verloren in meiner Aufgabe. Ich musste dann Online nach Hilfe suchen. Es ist auch wirklich viel schleichen und im Endeffekt das selbe tun, auch wenn immer mit einem anderem Kontext. Ansonsten gab es noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten die mich gestört haben, aber die gibt es in fast jedem Spiel. Aber wirklich Großartig ist bei dem Spiel einfach die Story. Ich habe meine 15 Stunden Spielzeit innerhalb von 2 Tagen durch. Das sagt schon mal einiges aus, ich bin nicht mehr weg gekommen. Auch Grafisch macht das Spiel echt etwas her und auch das die Charaktere wirklich Leiden, wenn sie z.B. gefallen sind etc. hat es einfach sehr viel lebendiger und echter gemacht. Man ist mit dem zu spieleden Charakter auf eine besondere Art und Weise sehr verbunden. Die Steuerung war auch recht simpel zu verstehen und es gab auch keine Spielabstürze, was mittlerweile ja ein postiver Punkt ist. Ich empfehle es jedem Storyliebhaber und auch jedem der mal etwas anderes ausprobieren möchte. Das Spiel ist einfach eine Erfahrung für sich.

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Posted on: December 28, 2024

hairyWumpus

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Spiele: 37 Rezensionen: 1

Good story, busted mechanics

After playing Innocence and Requiem, this one is definitely worse in terms of mechanics. The story is great in both titles, although the continuity is a little lacking where Requiem seems to have forgotten the events of Innocence, especially Hugo's experiences controlling the rats. But what really annoyed me in Requiem is broken gameplay mechanics. Crossing an area covered by rats? No problem, light something on fire, follow it through the area. At the far side, try to mantle onto the next platform. Try again. Try again. Get eaten by rats. The key-press prompt is there, but pressing the key doesn't do anything. And the "sprint away from the rats while looking backward" is terrible.

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